If you can't beat them, join them

Weary of being outnumbered here in GOP-powered South Carolina, I am surrendering to the conservative faction and will henceforth tout their message. For instance, I see their point of view when it comes to gun control as a true violation of my “18th century white guys with muskets” granted rights, despite 90 percent of Americans favoring operational safeguards.

Background checks are clearly government intrusion into gun owners lives, surely leading to more egregious personal privacy invasions. Next thing you know, big brother will want Americans, even immigrants to report each child born on U.S. soil, and force us to prove it with a piece of paper! Then they’ll try to track those babies from birth to grave! Government might even assign a specific identification code to each toddler, to follow them for decades, attached to private information such as income, investments, old-age pensions — I see a dangerous pattern developing.

Good God! They may even demand to know those babies’ medical information — vaccinations, infectious diseases, blood type — the list of offenses against human rights goes on and on. Next, it’s only a small step to tracking those children within educational regimes. Oh dear! What if a child has to show proof of intellectual development — a card or tablet signifying how he or she compares to others of the same age?! Educated adults might need to show verification of intellectual accomplishment with a certificate or placard from an institute of learning. Clearly, a gross foray against liberty.

From there it’s only a hop, skip and jump to controlling how fast we drive our cars and they’ll want to track autos in state motor vehicle databases! Bless me if I don’t foresee further incursions on American liberties — people might actually have to give personal information to officially indicate their approval for another specific person to hold public office — candidates who will undoubtedly need to show documentation recording background, capabilities, et al.

I predict there would be more and more government harassments — they’ll want to know about our personal mergers, requiring a nuptials permit authorizing such a coalition. They’ll sanction unique identifying codes for personal and professional transactions affecting bank accounts, investments. Stock certificates might require distinctive identifiers and property ownership will be recorded.

As a native born American, with libertarian inclinations, I’m struggling a bit with the seeming contradiction, even duplicity of demanding the government stay out of my gun rack but I’m powerless to prohibit mandatory probes assaulting my extremely personal vagina.

National Rifle Association commissioned a $1 million taskforce to study school safety issues. Former Arkansas Republican Congressman Asa Hutchinson chose representatives from two professional security training firms (RBT Solutions, Command Consulting Group) as consultants. No one with any form of education background, no teacher or school administrator was consulted.